Defend Zuma... with your buttocks!

ANC members and Cabinet ministers will use their buttocks to defend President Jacob Zuma, Water and Sanitation Minister Nomvula Mokonyane was reported as saying.
Minister Mokonyane made the comment at the launch of a water project in Marite, Mpumalanga, The Sowetan reported.
"The attack is not on Zuma, but it is on the ANC. Re tlo thiba ka dibono [We will defend with our buttocks]," Mokonyane was quoted as saying in the report.
The minister's comments come in the wake of the fallout surrounding the security upgrades to President Zuma's Nkandla homestead as well as the release of the spy tapes to the Democratic Alliance. In March, the Public Protector Thuli Madonsela found that the president had unduly benefitted from the R246-million upgrades. Madonsela recommended that the president pay back some of the costs.
Last week, President Zuma wrote to Madonsela telling her that he disagreed with her view that her recommendations can only be reviewed by a court of law. He was of the opinion that the Public Protector's role was similar to that of an ombudsman and not that of a judge.

The Public Protector has recently come under attack from the ANC over her pursuit of Zuma. A deputy minister also recently accused Madonsela of being a CIA agent but apologised for the comment after both the government and the ANC refused to endorse his comments.

In her comments at the launch, Mokonyane said that President Zuma would finish his term in office.

A spokesperson for the minister has explained that the minister's comment was not literal.

"She was using a figure of speech. She was just showing to what extent we would go to protect the president. There is no literal meaning to what she said," the spokesperson was quoted as saying by Sapa.